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PAGE PAGE 8 New Horizon Title: Unit 5 Choose to Be Alone on Purpose (A) Instruction Types: lecture and explanation discussion and retelling Objective: By way of learning this text , make the students know these important devices for developing a report: 1. Explanation 2. Contrast 3.Comparison –and- contrast Difficulty Emphasis: 1.key words and expressions 2.Know how to analyze and use these devices Time Distribution: Warm-up activities Drills of important phrases in the text Organization of the text (main idea, developing devices) key words and expressions Assignment I. Warm-up activities 1.Background information Henry David Thoreau (A) Henry David Thoreau: U.S. thinker, essayist, and naturalist (1817 —1862). Born in Concord, Mass., Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught school for several years before deciding to become a poet of nature. Back in Concord, he came under the influence of R. W. Emerson and began to publish pieces in the Transcendentalist magazine Henry David Thoreau (B) In the years 1845 —1847, to demonstrate how satisfying a simple life could be, he lived in a hut beside Concord’s Walden Pond; essays recording his daily life were assembled for his masterpiece, Walden (1854). His A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) was the only other book he published in his lifetime. He reflected on a night he spent in jail protesting the Mexican-American War in the essay Civil Disobedience (1849), which would later influence such figures as M. Gandhi and M. L. King. Henry David Thoreau (C) In later years his interest in Transcendentalism waned and he became a dedicated abolitionist. His many nature writings and records of his wanderings in Canada, Maine, and Cape Cod display the mind of a keen naturalist. After his death his collected writings were published in 20 volumes, and further writings have continued to appear in prints. John Milton (A) John Milton: English poet (1608 —1674). Milton attended Cambridge University (